Nutritional Assessment/Requirements Flashcards

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Initial Pathway Steps

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  1. Admission: Get height, weight, BMI
  2. Nutrition Screen within 24 hours
  3. Suspected Malnutrition?
    Yes => Nutrition Assessment
    No => Reassess in 3-7 days
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Nutritionally-at-risk Factors

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  • Involuntary loss of >= 10% body weight within 6 months
  • Involuntary loss of >=5% of usual body weight in 1 month
  • Involuntary loss or gain of 10 lbs within 6 months
  • BMI <18.5 or >25
  • Chronic Disease
  • Increased metabolic requirements
  • Altered diets or diet schedules
  • Inadequate nutrition intake, including no food or nutritional products for > 7 days
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Assessment of Nutritional Status

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  • History and clinical diagnosis
  • Physical exam/clinical signs
  • Anthropometric data
  • Labs
  • Food/nutrition intake (history, calorie counts, diet, etc.)
  • Functional assessment
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Exam/Clinical Signs Gathered

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Exams

  • Weight loss/gain
  • Fluid Retention
  • Loss of muscle/fat

Clinical Signs
-Inflammation: fever/hypothermia, tachycardia, hyperglycemia

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Anthropometric Data

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  • Weight: unintended weight loss if a validated indicator of malnutrition (measure at admission and repeat frequently)
  • Height
  • BMI: malnutrition can occur at any BMI
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Weight Alone Problems

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  • Doesn’t provide body composition information
  • Loss of serum proteins associated with ECF expansion
  • Concomitant diseases (CHF, ARF, Cirrhosis) associated with increased ECF
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Labs

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  • Markers of inflammation: elevated CRP, WBC, blood glucose levels
  • Negative nitrogen balance: sometimes support systemic inflammatory response (nitrogen from urine over 24 hours)
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Protein and Nitrogen Balance

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  • Nitrogen is a component of all amino acids
  • Nitrogen Balance (NB) is difference between dietary nitrogen intake and nitrogen losses
  • NB is a good marker for adequate protein intake
  • Little evidence for using NB
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NB

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  • NB = total protein intake (g)/6.25 - (UNN+4)
  • Positive NB: patient excretes less N than they consume (using N in new proteins)
  • Negative NB: excretes more N than they consume (use muscle as energy source)
  • May be useful to know but not common in practice
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Food/Nutrition Intake

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-Get information from patient or caregiver

Methods to help determine inadequate intake:

  • 24 hour recall
  • Modified diet history
  • Calorie count
  • Prior documentation of periods of inadequate food intake in medical record
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Functional Assessment

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  • Handgrip strength: documents decline in physical function

- Don’t use in ICU patients

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Short Term “Simple” Undernutrition

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  • < 72 hours
  • Glycogen rapidly depleted (insulin levels fall, glycogen levels increase)
  • FFA liberated, proteins undergo gluconeogenesis
  • Body adapts to using FFA/ketones (glucose needs decrease)
  • Metabolic rate decreases
  • Serum proteins maintained
  • Easily reversed with feeds (oral/enteral)
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Metabolic Stress/Stress Undernutrition

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  • > 72 hours
  • Cytokines released
  • Increased catecholamines, glucocorticoids, GH
  • Increased inflammation markers (CRP)
  • Insulin resistance associated with hyperglycemia
  • Metabolic rate increased
  • Accelerated protein catabolism (more nitrogen in urine)
  • Not reversed by simply feeding
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Malnutrition Key Points

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  • Nutrition imbalance leads to multiple abnormalities: inadequate intake/increased requirements, impaired absorption, altered nutrient transport and/or utilization
  • Patients may present with conditions that are inflammatory, hypercatabolic, and/or hypermetabolic
  • Can be caused by long term starvation/undernutrition, chronic diseases, or acute injuries
  • Inflammation is important factor for increasing risk of malnutrition
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Malnutrition Evaluation

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  • Energy/nutrition intake - % of energy requirement taken in during last week/month
  • Weight loss - % lost over period of time
  • Fluid accumulation: generalized or localized
  • Loss of body fat
  • Loss of muscle mass
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Malnutrition Diagnosis

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  • Severe protein-calorie malnutrition: meets at least 2 criteria from malnutrition criteria table
  • Protein-calorie malnutrition: meets 2 criteria from non-severe column OR 1 criteria from severe and 1 from non-severe
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Clinical Consequences of Malnutrition

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  • Decrease immune function: primary decreases in cell-mediated immunity
  • Decreased muscle function (skeletal, respiratory, cardiac)
  • Decreased wound healing (fistula formation, wound dehiscence, abscess formation, anastomotic breakdown
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Fistula Formation

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  • Abnormal connection that connects two organs/vessels that don’t normally connect
  • Complications: significant fluid/electrolyte/minerals/protein loss, dehydration, imbalances, malnutrition
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Wound Dehiscence

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  • Partial or total separation of previously approximated wound edges: failure of proper wound healing
  • Clinical significance: poor perfusion, infection risk, malnutrition
  • May require another surgery to fix
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Physiologic Energy Needs

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  • Energy required for all metabolic processes, growth, repair, and activity
  • Body will utilize its tissue for fuel if energy isn’t provided (catabolism)
  • Results in depletion of body cell mass and complications of malnutrition
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BMR

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  • Basal metabolic rate: energy required to maintain body cell mass and basal organ functions
  • Estimated with REE (resting energy expenditure) in hospitalized patients
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Determining REE

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  • Predictive Equations: Harris-Benedict (adjusted BW for obese), Mifflin-St. Jeor, Ireton-Hones, Penn State (ventilated patients)
  • Indirect Calorimetry (IC) - measure energy expenditure, considered gold standard for hospitalized patients, cost/availability limit use
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Harris-Benedict Equation

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  • REE = BMR * Stress/Activity Factor
  • Activity factor varies from Sedentary to Extreme Activity
  • Units: kcal/day
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Limitations of REE Equation

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  • No equation is more accurate than IC
  • Hundreds of equations posts, all 40-75% accurate
  • Even less accurate in obese and underweight patients
  • Poor accuracy due to non-static variables (weight, medications, body temp)
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Indirect Calorimetry
- Most accurate method of determining REE - Measures oxygen consumption and CO2 production to calculate whole body energy catabolism over a day - Variables that effect the timing/accuracy of IC readings - Costly equipment and requires trained personnel
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IC Affecting Variables
- Air leaks or chest tubes - Supplemental oxygen - Ventilator settings - CRRT - Anesthesia - PT and/or excessive movement
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Weight Based Equations
- Recommend this or REE equation when IC not available - Non-obese: 25-30 kcal/day (BW) Obese Patients - BMI 30-50: 11-14 kcal/kg/day (BW) - BMI > 50: 22-25 kcal/kg/day (IBW)
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IBW
Male: 106 lb for first 60 inches + 6 lbs for each inch > 60 inches Female: 100 lbs for first 60 inches + 5 lbs each inch > 60 inches
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Enteral Nutrition
- EN - Nutrition provided by feeding tube into GI tract - Not oral and NOT IV
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Physiological EN Benefits
- Supports functional integrity of gut: stimulate blood flow, release of trophic agents, maintains tight junctions - Maintains structural integrity by maintaining villous height and supporting mass of secretory IgA-producing immunocytes in gut lymphoid tissue
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Additional Benefits of EN
- Modulate stress and systemic immune response - Attenuate disease severity - Fewer complications compared to PN - Lower cost compared to PN
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Disadvantages of EN
- Aspiration and VAP (higher risk => place postpyloric) - GI: diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, distension (proper rate of admin, product selection, and goal rate) - Complications from tube placement - Stigma of feeding tubes
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EN Contraindications
- Small or Large intestinal obstructions - Paralytic ileus - Peritonitis - GI Ischemia - Relative and constantly changing (growing body of research on EN and outcomes)
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EN vs PN
- Selecting appropriate route is key to optimize outcomes - EN is preferred unless there are contraindications, not tolerate after repeated attempts, unable to meet nutritional goals with EN - Even if on PN, initiate EN as soon as safely possible
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EN Formula Composition
Main components: - Protein: 15-20% of total calories - Carbs: 40-60% of total calories - Lipids: 25-40% of total calories - Electrolytes: minerals, vitamins, trace elements -Different formulas available for special conditions (renal, hepatic, stress, diabetes)
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Standard Polymeric EN
- Nutrient distribution for normal diet | - Indication: Normal GI fxn
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High Protein Polymeric EN
- Protein >15% of total energy | - Indications: Catabolic states, wound healing
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Partially Hydrolyzed Oligomeric EN
- "Semi-elemental" - Composition varies where one or more macro-nutrients are hydrolyzed - Indications: impaired digestion/absorption, pancreatic insufficiency, IBD
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FAA Monomeric EN
- "Elemental" - Hydrolyzed formula, low residue - Indication: Crohn's disease possible, falling out of favor in adults in favor of oligomeric EN
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Metabolism in Critically Ill
- Metabolic response to stress is adaptive to survive acute illness - increase energy provision to vital tissues, altered pathways of energy production and alt. substrates needed - Patients at risk for stress hyperglycemia - high [glucose] increase production and/or expression of pro-inflammatory mediators
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Protein in ICU
- Protein loss occurs universally in ICU (less muscle mass) - Magnitude of protein loss associated with increased morbidity/mortality - Manifestations of severe protein malnutrition: respiratory failure, immune dysfxn, poor wound healing - Protein most important nutrient for protecting lean body mass - Higher protein intake early shown to decrease mortality (opposite in overfeeding) * *Most important macronutrient, focus on protein if caloric requirement can't be met**
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Enteral Protein Dosing
-Standard goal: 1.2-2 g/kg/day -Burn patients: 1.5-2 g/kg/day -CRRT/frequent HD patients: 2.5 g/kg/day (don't restrict in renal insufficiency) Obese -BMI 30-40: 2g/kg/day (IBW) -BMI >40: up to 2.5 g/kg/day (IBW) **Avoid protein restriction, especially in CRRT and liver failure pts**
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EN in ICU
- Start within 24-48 hours in critically ill patients who can't maintain PO intake on their own - ICU patients at risk for adverse changes in gut permeability - Could lead to bacterial challenges, risk for systemic infection, increased risk of multiple-organ dysfxn syndrome - As disease status worsens, increases in gut permeability amplifies and EN more likely to favorably impact those AE
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Acute Pancreatitis Considerations
- Mild acute pancreatitis: advance to PO diet as tolerated, consider EN/PN if unable to advance within 7 days - Mod-Severe: Place NG/OG and start trophic rate, advancing to goal as fluid volume resuscitation completed - Use polymeric formula when initiating early EN - EN>PN in severe pancreatitis (except necrotizing pancreatitis), consider adding probiotic
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Trauma Surgical Patient Consideration
- Early enteral feedings with high protein polymeric diet initiated within 24-48 hours of injury once stable - Consider immune-modulating formulas with arginine and fish oil in severe trauma patients
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Traumatic Brain Injury Considerations
- Similar to other critically ill patients, initiate early EN within 24-48 hours once stable - Consider using arginine-containing immune-modulating formulas or EPA/DHA supplement with standard EN formula (may accelerate recovery)
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Open Abdomen Considerations
- OA technique, used to manage abdominal contents after damage control laparotomy - May have OA for days to weeks post-op - Very pro-inflammatory state - Initiate early EN 24-48 hours post-op in patients with OA in absence of bowel injury - Consider adding additional 15-30 g of protein per L of exudate loss for OA patients
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Burns Consideration
- EN should be given to those with functioning GI and inadequate PO intake - Use IC when available to assess energy needs and repeat weekly - Initiate very early EN - within 4-6 hours of injury if possible - Protein goal: 1.5-2 g/kg
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Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Considerations
- EN within 24-48 hours of diagnosis, as soon as resuscitation is complete and stable - Not recommended to use exclusive PN or supplemental PN in conjunction with EN in acute phase
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Post-op Major Surgery Considerations
- Determine nutrition risks on all post-of patients in ICU - Suggest initiating EN when feasible in post-op period within 24 hours of surgery - Suggest routine use of immune-modulating formula (arginine and fish oils) in SICU for post-ops
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Chronically Critically Ill Considerations
- Persistent organ dysfunction requiring ICU stay of >21 days - Persistent inflammation, immunosuppression, and catabolism syndrome - Manage patients with aggressive high-protein EN therapy (also resistance exercise program when possible)
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Obesity in Critical Illness Patients Differences
- More likely to have fuel utilization issues (greater loss of LBM) - Greater risk of insulin resistance - Get higher percentage of energy needs from protein metabolism - More complication than others with normal BMI: infection, longer stays, more organ failure, longer mechanical ventilation durations
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Obesity in ICU Considerations
- EN within 24-48 hours of admission if PO intake can't be sustained - High-protein hypocaloric EN to preserve LBM, mobilize adipose tissues, and minimize metabolic complications from overfeeding - Give supplemental thiamine prior to starting dextrose-containing fluids if history of bariatric surgery - Evaluate and treat for micronutrient deficiencies in bariatric surgery patients as well